is tech. and that's a huge part of the s&p, the biggest, talk about a battleground. what did we pay for apple's earnings now that they're decelerating? do we take money out and buy other technology stocks like intel and microsoft which reported mixed and in line quarter, 76 cents a share, one-cent beat, drop a tad, 1.5% in after hours trading, or do we go by avnet, whole foods, which reported terrific upside surprise today. or do we pile into what we know is growing faster? that stocks that aren't tethered to personal computers alone, facebook, amazon, google, and netflix, which rallied more than 40% today. are those four stocks the newest four horseman of tech? placing intel, cisco, microsoft, oracle. are those now our father stocks like merck and pfizer were before them or general motors, bethlehem steel were before those? i would argue kind of, yeah. apple being revalued identically to intel, microsoft and oracle on earnings basis, lower than those. those were once high-growth stocks where the growth has stalled out. their shares traded at a discount. apple in a sad way is a sour